I highly recommend Aviva Jill Romm’s book on vaccinations. It helped me to figure out the answer to this question for my son.

I will preface this response with a little background information on myself.  I have two sons 14 months apart (4 1/2 and almost 3 1/2) who are both completely unvaccinated.  I began my research, like you while expecting my first child, and had intended to only delay and or space out the vaccines, not avoid them altogether.  What I discovered changed my opinion completely and my course of action.  They are very healthy (and off the charts in height and weight, though never had a single fat roll on them… they are very strong, sturdy boys)  Neither of them has any speech delays, ADHD(1 in 10 kids now diagnosed), pervasive developmental delays(1 in 6 kids now diagnosed) , autism spectrum disorders(1 in 66 or fewer now diagnosed) and have hit all their milestones on time or ahead of “schedule”.  THank GOD!!!  Do I believe it has to do with me not allowing the medical establishment to assault their underdeveloped immune systems, digestive systems, neurological systems?  ABSOLUTELY!  Will I ever know what the outcome would have been if I had followed the CDC’s recommended vaccine schedule.  No.  Do I regret my decision?  HELL NO!  Neither of them has had anything that was vaccine preventable.
Let’s begin with the Hepatitis B vaccine, as that is the first vaccine your baby will receive on his first day of life.  No vaccine offers lifelong immunity.  It is 7-10 years at very best.  THerefore, your newborn is not even in a risk group for contracting this disease until they become sexually active or live in a college dormatory.  By then, the vaccine he would have received at birth will have worn off and he will have to get another.  Wouldn’t it make sense then to just give it to him around 12 years of age???  I asked my pediatrician why they give one day old babies HepB when they are not even in a risk group for contracting it and I wanted to see how forthright she would be.  She knew I had done my research and this was an intellectual decision for me, not an emotional one.  She was honest.  I am paraphrasing, but this is virtually verbatim her response:”Well, the target age used to be between 7 and 12 years old, but they found they were missing large clusters of children (meaning their ideal of as close to 100%vaccination rate as possible was way below and therefore were missing out on an untold amount of money in “missing” these kids) so they decided to lower the recommended age to birth and give it in the hospital so they could achieve closer to 100% vaccination rate.”  WOW!  My pediatrician admitted to me that they needlessly and pointlessly give this vaccine to newborns and she did so as calmly as if she was discussing the weather.  It truly is all about the money, with this vaccine and EVERY other!!!!
You and I (I am 40, you’re probably younger and received a few more shots than I did) received about 10 vaccines.  Kids now receive 68 by the time they are 18 and the rates of Autism and other neurological/behavioral disorders has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions… Think about it.  Does the mainstream media consider these afflictions to be epidemic??  No.  THey are in bed with Big Pharma.  If it were leukemia or juvenile diabetes it would be considered an epidemic.  And remember this if you take nothing else away from my post, despite what the CDC, WHO, and other pro vaccine groups will tell you (they are saying some kids have a mitochondrial predisposition to Autism, etc…): THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GENETIC EPIDEMIC! They simply do not exist in nature.  And unless and until they can prove that vaccines do no harm, I will deny each and every one for my children.  There have been no long term, double blind (which is THE standard for any and all scientific testing!) studies regarding safety and efficacy.  Vaccine studies are funded by Pharmaceutical companies and they have intentionally skewed the data to support their position and agenda.  There is evidence to prove this; all you have to do is begin researching.  You do have a choice in what you allow them to inject into your child.  You have the right to refuse, as I have.  The government and Pharma want us to believe they are mandatory to attend school, but each and every state has exemptions built into the law:religious, medical, and or philosophical. Depending on which state you live in, you do have options.  I am about to submit my request for exemption in NY state.  For each and every vaccine you agree to give your child, you have to sign a waiver that transfers liability off of the doctor and back on you.  Please know that if your child is vaccine injured, you cannot sue the doctor or the pharmaceutical manufacturer.  You have very little recourse and will be hard pressed to get a doctor to admit in writing that a vaccine did any harm to your baby.  THey will tell you it is a normal, expected reaction.  Give them Tylenol.  There is a federally funded program called VAERS which pays out compensatory damage to vaccine injured children which was established in 1986 after Pharmaceutical threatened to discontinue manufacturing vaccines unless the Federal Government guaranteed immunity.  How sick!! Anyway, I think I have provided enough to get you started on your own journey to enlightenment on the dangers and inefficacy of vaccines.  Knowledge is power and their deception is quickly being revealed.  There is more information out there now than ever and more and more parents are questioning doctors and the motivation of Big Pharma and opting out.  I will gladly share more information with you if you so desire.  Please feel free to contact me at kikihealy@gmail:twitter .com and I can recommend some excellent articles, websites, and books (which I have read about 17 or 18 on the topic in the last 5 years).  I applaud you for being an advocate for your baby and questioning medical establishment.  All you have to do is look online at some of the stories from parents of vaccine injured children. They KNOW that their children who were developing normally and hitting all the milestones (making eye contact, playing patty cake, etc) were irrevocably changed immediately after receiving multiple doses of vaccines at a well baby checkup.  High fever, hot red swollen lump at injection site, screaming for days on end without being able to console them, and then retreating and regressing into Autism.  Who knows a baby better than it’s mother and father??  Your pediatrician?  I don’t think so.  Can thousands and thousands of parents be wrong?  Highly doubtful. 

http://vaccinedangers.com/
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/05/12/vaccination-dangers.aspx
http://www.whale.to/m/belkin1.html
http://www.nvic.org/
http://vactruth.com/
http://yourchildyourchoice.wordpress.com/

Here are just a few of the dozens of resources for your perusal… I hope this has been helpful to you.  You and your wife will have to put your game face on when going into your pediatrician’s office because you will most likely be met with opposition.  There are more and more pediatrician’s who are changing their views and questioning parents right to deny or delay. THere are sites devoted to finding a doctor in your area. Once your doctor realizes you have educated yourself and are unwavering, they will leave you alone. Also, DO NOT leave your child unattended in the nursery at the hospital.  Keep him with you at all times to ensure they don’t vaccinate against your wishes…. Believe it or not, it has been known to happen despite parents specifically stating they are not going to the HepB or Vitamin K.  Go in with a letter stating your explicit wishes that your baby not receive ANY vaccines and you will sue them to the fullest extent of the law if they violate your wishes. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING.  They will bring you a waiver to sign to give him the HepB and Vitamin K.  If they make you sign something stating that you are putting your child in danger by NOT giving him the shot, alter the words to state that you believe you are risking your child’s health by giving them the vaccine.  Then and only then do you sign it.  It is perfectly legal. Nowhere does it state that you cannot alter the hospitals waiver for vaccination.  Remember, that piece of paper transfers any and all liability onto you and your wife. 

Again, I hope this is helpful.. Do your own research.  I believe firmly in Informed Choice.  But unfortunately they do not disclose the known risks and dangers of vaccines.  You are the first and best line of defense for your new baby and you have a moral, spiritual, and ethical responsibility to keep him/her safe. If you fed your baby a teaspoon of poison (which is exactly what vaccines contain:  Aluminum (known neurotoxin), Mercury  (also a neurotoxin and one of the most deadly substances known to man), aborted human fetuses, monkey kidney cells, bovine cells, etc….) you would be criminally prosecuted!
Feel free to contact me if you need further information or recommendations.  I wish you and your new baby well.  Be strong!!!

Warm regards from an enlightened Mama,
Kirsten

No hep B, chicken pox, or flu.  Delay for at least 6 months(at least).  During that time research and decide what you’re comfortable with.

Flu vaccine isn’t even made for those under 6 months, and Chickenpox vaccine is not given until 1 yr of age per the CDC guidelines.

 If you want to do hep b you can wait til they are a minimum of 10 years old.  A newborn isn’t sexually active.  Unless the mother is hep b positive their risk of contracting hep b is almost nonexistent.

My 2 month-old daughter has not been given any vaccinations and I have been all but told I am a “bad mother” or “unfit” by the staff at the Pediatric Department of the UCLA Medical Center. When I ask about the risks, they will only tell me of the risks of NOT getting my child vaccinated. They do not discuss the risks of the vaccines. They discredit the doctors who expose the risks of the vaccines by telling me that these people are no longer doctors and all of their statements are lies. At UCLA, they claim that there is ABSOLUTELY no evidence that vaccinations are related to autism. They tell me that they all have “witnessed infants dying in their hospital of whooping cough.” Then, they call in a social worker to address any issues I may be facing with the parenting of my child. I don’t understand how a teaching hospital can be so myopic. Why are the professionals at UCLA NOT studying the dangers of the vaccines?!?!?

Where do you live? NO they tried to give my 4 month old one.. Yesterday! Of course I said no

Avoid ALL vaccines.  I am a 33 yr old man who has never been vaccinated.  I am still alive and well.

On the surface it makes perfect to listen to whatever your MD says. But its also foolish to trust a business that can’t be sued. Several drug companies have settled lawsuits for essentially bribing doctors to write scripts. So why should the vaccine industry be treated with less skepticism

I did the same thing too my oldest child and has Autism and my other three kids don”t have it so they need too pay for there lies they tell us

How do you know that vaccines don’t cause autism if you don’t know what causes autism?

http://vactruth.com/2013/01/18/mmr-vaccine-causing-autism/

To imply that the NUMEROUS parents who have noticed Autistic tendencies in their children directly following their vaccines (especially the MMR) are all jumping to the same paranoid conclusion for no good reason is to ignore logic, reason and facts.

Have you ever actually researched this topic? Or are you just regurgitating mainstream media tidbits? Are you a doctor? Have you ever worked closely with Autistic children or do you even know an Autistic child?

You do not know that vaccines don’t cause Autism, you only know that someone told you that they don’t. That someone was wrong and so are you. Inform yourself and stop perpetuating dangerous ideas. For the sake of our children, please.